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2005-06-29 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Spavirt Pheng6042 2005-06-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Remarkably, Brazil was one of the very first countries to sponsor nuclear weapons research. During the 1930s some of the earliest research on nuclear fission was conducted at the Univeristy of Sao Paulo under a grant from the Brazilian army. At the time, fission was still a theoretical concept and had not been achieved in reality. Later, after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Brazilian government set up a small program of clandestine research and a much broader program of civilian nuclear research.
Brazilian interest in nuclear weapons has waxed and waned in the decades since, but no informed observer doubts that the Brazilian authorities could construct a workable nuclear explosive in a matter of weeks if they really wanted to. The IAEA control regime is the main deterrent, with Brazil adhering to all IAEA requirements, in public at least. There is a possibility of a clandestine nuclear program, of course, but no evidence for it. It is known that such programs have existed in the past ("Project SolimÃµes" from 1977-88).

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-06-29 23:03|| 2005-06-29 23:03|| Front Page Top

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